Respect the little husband [farming]
Chapter 107
The author has something to say: the plot was changed in the previous chapter, just take a look at the front and the end.
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When the imperial examination began, Ge Zhengzhuo set off for the southwest with food and other things, and the Seventh Prince went with him. In addition to having enough servants to serve on the road, Emperor Chongxin also sent Zhennan General Zhang Yujian to lead troops south. It is to protect the safety of the Seventh Prince, and the second is to protect the disaster relief items in case bandits are robbed on the road.
The issue of the Qiang Kingdom has not yet been settled, and the embassy has not met the emperor since it entered Beijing.
Emperor Chongxin obviously didn't want to make too much trouble with the Qiang Kingdom, and only one Hun in the north was enough to annoy him. Taking advantage of the fact that officials in the imperial court who had nothing to do in the imperial examination could rest for a few days, Emperor Chongxin took advantage of the opportunity to hold a spring hunt in the imperial forest farm in the suburbs.
According to the etiquette of exchanges between the two countries, one should be held to show the prestige of the great power and kill the vigor of the Qiang mission. You can see real swords and guns.
The spring hunt is scheduled to be on the first day of the imperial examinations. The Ministry of Rites has already set up a viewing stand at the Yulinchang in the outskirts. Next to the forest farm is a palace. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers. It is warm and cold. A spring outing is also fun.
Emperor Chongxin sat on the temporary pavilion, the empress dowager was at the head on the left side, followed by the empress and a group of concubines, and on the right was the leading minister of the Qiang mission, as well as senior officials of the second rank and above. Princes and nobles, the Duke of Ningjiazhen and General Ning also came this time.
The rest of the people sat under the pavilion. Shen Wenxuan straightened his upper body and aimed at the Queen Mother from the corner of his eye. Jiao Shihan was sitting next to her with a smile on his face. Even wearing a half mask could not block the light in his eyes. The toes at the foot of the table stomped on the ground, like a cat poking out and retracting its paws, full of anticipation.
The Empress Dowager looked at him teasingly, and said softly, "What? Can't wait?"
Jiao Shihan nodded helplessly, clasped his fingers together and rubbed them embarrassedly, he was so obedient and sweet, the queen mother couldn't help but pinch one side of his cheek and rubbed it: "Don't worry, this spring hunting will last three months." God, enough for you to play."
Shen Wenxuan caught a glimpse of the Queen Mother pinching someone's hand, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help curling up. He hadn't touched him for a long time, but the Queen Mother was pinching happily.
Tsk, a little sour.
Dozens of people at the front who had changed into horse uniforms were divided into several teams. Civilian and military generals who were good at equestrianism or idlers who just wanted to join in the fun formed teams at will. The more conspicuous one was Ge Wucheng who was riding on a horse with a few subordinates. With the second prince who accompanied and guarded himself, and the Qiang people who were in a group.
Speaking of clearing out the forest farm a few days ago, we drove the wolves, tigers and leopards that could easily hurt people into the deep mountains, and captured the docile deer, rabbits, roe deer, etc., and released them at several points today for food People hunt for fun.
Shen Wenxuan raised his hand to drink a glass of sake, but before he looked away from Ajiao, the little eunuch who was serving beside him poured the wine for him again and slipped a note across the table to him under the cover of the jug, Shen Wenxuan Guang glanced at it, rolled his fingers and put the note into his sleeve calmly, unfolded it and glanced at it while no one was looking.
It can be seen that the handwriting was written by Ajiao, and the single character is "bridge".
There was only one bridge in this forest farm, and it was on the river on the west side. He remembered that the place was not intended to release prey, so when the hunting started later, no one would think of going there.
Shen Wenxuan rolled the note into the palm of his hand, couldn't help smiling, and turned his head to listen to Wang Muze who was behind him.
Wang Muze went down with his body bowed, and by taking advantage of the effort to lead his son's horse from the stable, he turned the news into a gesture and sent it to the lieutenant beside Ge Wucheng.
The lieutenant lowered his eyes, leaning into the general's ear to clarify the meaning of those gestures, Ge Wucheng held the rein in his hand, looked back at Shen Wenxuan, nodded to show that he understood, and controlled the horse under him to move from side to side , pushing away the Qiang people beside him, he caught a glimpse of the second prince standing far away from the corner of his eye, and remembered the meeting a few nights ago.
The two of them had almost no contact with Shen Wenxuan during the past few days. It was one thing to have outsiders around, but it was another thing for Shen Wenxuan to deliberately avoid them.
In a teahouse on Hexi Street, Shen Wenxuan sat cross-legged and woke up a cup of tea for each of the two people with stinky faces opposite him. This teahouse, no, it should be said that this Hexi Street belongs to his Shen family. The servants, stewards, and even ordinary residents in the village all had deep or shallow ties to the Shen family, and most of them were abandoned by the capital, so they would not easily commit betrayal, so it was considered safe to meet here.
Ge Wucheng frowned and sat there with his hands in his hands, with an unhappy expression on his face, he didn't even touch the cup of tea he poured out, and said with disgust: "I thought I had to drink wine no matter what, but I didn't expect it to be a cup of crude tea, it's boring."
Zhang Yujian just picked up the teacup, and after hearing what he said, she glanced at him with a helpless expression, and raised her hand to take a sip.
Shen Wenxuan was not annoyed, and said: "It's a waste of time to drink, but if you really want to drink, I'll ask Xiao Er to bring a pot."
Zhang Yujian: "He didn't want to drink, he was obviously playing with you, and he thought it took you so long to come to see him. He obviously stayed in Beijing for more than ten days, and you either didn't have any news or let him Wait, wait, wait, waiting is getting boring."
"Aren't you the same?" Ge Wucheng glanced at him sideways, then glanced back at Shen Wenxuan, "I've already felt that something is wrong, if you have something to say, just say it, I'm listening."
Shen Wenxuan: "What do you want me to say? Say that the matter in the Southwest has been resolved, and we should all be happy and get together and part ways?"
Ge Wucheng stood up in a huff, shaking the table three times, his face was red, and he said angrily: "What do you mean by that? Solving the Southwest is like cutting out a cancerous tumor, but the patient with the cancerous tumor has not been cured yet. , sooner or later, more tumors will grow, once, twice, three times...you, you—"
Ge Wucheng was so angry that he beat the table and hated iron and steel: "Can't you have some ambition? Aren't you a prince? Come on, it's all... You see, you need soldiers, you need money, you need culture ...We are almost a civil servant, but you have a good literary talent, no matter how bad you are, what is the name of the one you know, Weixiu! He is a great Confucian, and many scholars value this, you just keep doing it, how good it is!"
"Sit down," Shen Wenxuan said, and exchanged a glance with Zhang Yujian, deliberately teasing him, "What if I say that my ambition is not here."
"You—" Ge Wucheng choked, stared at his eyes for a long time, turned his face away and said, "I can't control you, it's useless to say more, if you really have the heart to abandon us brothers and the people who are in dire straits... Wu Gu, you can go if you want, anyway, I want to stay, even if I fight to pieces, I want to protect the peace of the people of Daqing."
Zhang Yujian raised her hand and patted his arm, bowing her head and laughing.
This stupefied--
Shen Wenxuan also laughed, and there was a bit of congenial loyalty in this smile: "Just now I was teasing you, and only you, a wooden head who can't turn, can take it seriously, sit down, look up at you and my neck is tired panic."
Ge Wucheng glanced at Zhang Yujian who was next to him, then at Shen Wenxuan, and sat down forcefully.
"I was wrong before. I replaced the wine with tea, and I will apologize here." Shen Wenxuan said, raising his hand to dry the tea in his hand.
Ge Wucheng's expression softened a little, and he also drank the cup of tea in front of him.
Shen Wenxuan: "I've called you here this time to aim at the throne under the emperor's buttocks. If I want to go up there, there will be a lot of bones. I have to do some dirty things for this. Are you willing?"
"Whether it's pickled or not—" Zhang Yujian tilted his head and looked at Ge Wucheng, "We people who have come out of blood don't care, just one thing, we trust you."
"Okay," Shen Wenxuan's eyes became extremely sharp for a moment, "I want you to do two things. One is that the seventh prince will go to the southwest this time. The second prince will definitely not be safe, but he will definitely not be in the southwest. Do it now, Zhang Yujian, all you have to do is to advance this matter, kill him before the end of the spring hunting, and then pretend to be the second prince to do it, Ge Zhengzhuo will help you quietly."
"The second is Ge Wucheng, I want you to do it during the spring hunting—"
There was movement from the pavilion, Ge Wucheng recovered his senses and looked up. Emperor Chongxin stood on the edge of the pavilion with a slight smile on his mouth, but his eyes were calm and majestic: "Today's spring hunting, all the lovers are showing their skills, so handsome, Immediately until evening, whoever kills the most prey, I will rank him first, second and third, and he will be rewarded heavily!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Everyone got on their horses one after another, neighing, and the fierce horse galloped into the forest. Ge Wucheng grabbed the reins, and before entering the forest, he glanced in the direction of the Qiang people, his eyes were darker than the fog.
Jiao Shihan hugged the Empress Dowager's arm and was about to speak quietly, but saw the Empress stood up, bowed and said: "Your Majesty, this concubine is not feeling well, and I want to go back to the palace to rest for a while."
Emperor Chongxin nodded and agreed, since she happened to be able to bring Concubine Ning over without her, it would be much more free to not be restricted by her.
Empress He knew what he was thinking, but she didn't care about it. When she stepped down from the pavilion, she inadvertently glanced at the Empress Dowager, pursed her lips and smiled, sat in the sedan chair dignifiedly and left.
The queen mother felt strange, and when she was wondering, Jiao Shihan pulled her sleeves and looked at her with bright eyes. The queen mother grabbed his hand and smiled, fearing that he would tie a rabbit fur cloak on him, He instructed: "Be careful when riding the horse, don't make trouble until it's too late, I don't feel at ease here."
"I see, grandma." Jiao Shihan replied in a low voice, and quickly ran down the pavilion, Lu Xiu couldn't help smiling, and led five or six little eunuchs to follow behind him.
The groom in the stable picked out an obedient white horse for him, Jiao Shihan stroked its mane reassuringly, glanced at Shen Wenxuan's back from the corner of his eyes, and immediately retracted it, tense and excited, grabbed the saddle leg Kick off and get on the horse.
After all, he came from the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion, and he still knows how to ride a horse. He turned the horse's head skillfully, Jiao Shihan controlled the horse and trotted towards the forest on the west side, and the green sleeves and the little eunuch behind him also rode .
Shen Wenxuan turned his head and glanced, sat on the spot and tapped his fingers on the table a little anxiously, wishing that the time would speed up eight times at this moment, making Shao Youli look at him frequently, thinking that he was in a bad mood and sat away silently some.
When the time was almost up, Shen Wenxuan immediately got up and bowed to the emperor on the stage, took the bow and arrow from Wang Muze's hand and carried it on his back, and followed his reason without riding a horse and went straight to the west forest. The scenery was fine, but if he went directly there, he would look suspicious, so he had to follow the steps of the previous group of people.
"I am a good man in Daqing, all of whom are tall and straight, brave and good at fighting. If the top three are all from Daqing, King Fan will not feel embarrassed." Emperor Chongxin smiled, looking into the eyes of King Fan There is both arrogance and contempt.
Fan Wang put on a solemn face, not paying attention: "The Qiang people ride horses and hunt for housekeeping skills. They are not as good as the people in the Central Plains who only use them for entertainment. If they lose their housekeeping skills, it is a joke."
"Hahahahahaha," Emperor Chongxin smiled, "The king and I will wait and see."
"Wait and see!"
As soon as he entered the forest, Shen Wenxuan felt that something was wrong. He controlled the horse and continued to walk a few steps. He unexpectedly ran into the second prince. With a smile in his heart, he waved his hands and the guards in front and behind blocked Shen Wenxuan firmly.
Shen Wenxuan glanced back and forth, rubbed the reins loosely, and said with a smile: "What is the meaning of the second prince? There are many people here, the second prince must not make fun of me."
Li Zhi raised her eyebrows indifferently, and said: "This palace just wants to find someone to go with me, so I have chosen Mr. Shen. The forest here is shallow, and there are indeed many people. What is Mr. Shen afraid of?"
Shen Wenxuan glanced at him and turned his mind. Just because of what he said just now, there are already several officials' children passing by not far away. It is completely natural to notice them. As long as the second prince is not stupid, he will not do anything to him. Then what is his purpose in looking for him?Logically, he shouldn't be here.
"Second prince, as for me, I prefer to be alone. If you can't get along with others, you should find someone else." Shen Wenxuan said, riding a horse into the encirclement, he was about to force his way.
Li Zhi didn't stop him with a wave of his hand, turned his horse's head and followed him: "I have my own reasons for looking for your lord, after all, your lord is an interesting person, he hides really deep, even if you know your lord's roots, I can’t see where all the branches of the adults are reaching.”
Shen Wenxuan raised his eyes, pretending to be puzzled: "Forgive Shen for being dull, I don't know what the second prince is talking about."
Li Zhi: "It doesn't matter, I believe in me, Mr. Shen can ignore it."
Shen Wenxuan rolled his eyes, slammed his whip and ran forward, Li Zhi immediately followed, just like a dog skin plaster, but the medicine inside was poisonous.
Before he was determined to frame Lao Qi, Ge Zhengzhuo had come to him, the emperor had put Ge Zhengzhuo under house arrest in Beijing for long enough, at first he could still be served with good food and drink, as uncomfortable as a wealthy idler, But after a long time, when the group of people who are accustomed to worshiping the high and trampling the low discover that the emperor does not intend to reuse him, the benefits of being admired and flattered by others will flow away like water, and life will start to suffer.
Wouldn't it be a pity that a magistrate has no official or position in Beijing, and is forgotten in a corner by everyone, restricted everywhere.
Ge Zhengzhuo fell on the ground and knelt in front of him, begging: "Your Highness, your family members and heirs are all waiting for you to go back in the southwest, looking forward to it every day, looking forward to it every night, and missing you endlessly. I beg Your Highness to help you. To be able to reunite with my family, I am willing to do the work of a dog and a horse."
Li Zhi bent down slightly with interest and asked, "My lord is like an abandoned son, what can I do for this hall?"
Ge Zhengzhuo raised his head and looked earnestly: "The two Feng Lang generals who are beside the emperor today were once subordinates of the minister. It is the minister who reused them and brought them to the capital, so they can have the present style. They owe I have to repay my love, so I use this love to beg His Highness to speak for my minister, begging Your Highness—"
Li Zhi straightened up and sneered: "Love is the most worthless."
"It's worth it!" Ge Zhengzhuo hurriedly took out two letters from his sleeve and held them in front of him, "Your Highness, you will know if it's worth it. The two of them value love and righteousness, and they will definitely not leave me, an old minister, alone." .”
Facts have proved that it is still somewhat useful. One person accepted the two letters and the other did not. Zhao Er was the one who did not answer. He still treated him rigidly. On the day he was anxious to see the emperor, he dared to stop him. I don’t know what to do!However, Yan Qi threw an olive branch at him and promised to do one thing for him, on the condition that he would help him to be promoted to the rank of admiral of the Nine Sects.
One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, and if Zhao Er doesn't think about making progress, don't blame someone who is more ambitious than him.
Li Zhi stared at Shen Wenxuan in front of him, thinking of the things he had arranged, his eyes suddenly burst into poisonous excitement.
Jiao Shihan stroked the mane of his white horse, and rode slowly to wait for Ah Xuan. Ah Xuan would not come over so soon, and he was not in a hurry. He walked leisurely towards the river in the deep forest like a walk in the forest.
Although it was a half day of leisure stolen, but as long as I can see him, it is also good.
When he was not halfway there, a court lady suddenly came out from behind the tree and bowed to stop his horse. Jiao Shihan hurriedly tightened the reins and stopped, and looked carefully that the court lady was wearing the palace uniform of Zhongcui Palace.
People from Zhongcui Palace?Jiao Shihan was puzzled for a moment.
Tao Hong lowered her head and saluted, and said: "Young Master Jiao, my mother is picking incense not far away, she is very happy to see the young master coming, so I invite the young master to go and walk a few steps together."
"Empress...didn't you go back to the palace earlier? How could...?" He asked suspiciously, holding on to the rein in his hand, his doubts became even more serious.
Tao Hong raised her eyes and smiled: "My mother is afraid of going back to the palace alone and getting bored, so she stays here thinking of looking at the scenery and picking flowers. It is also fate to meet Young Master Jiao. Young master, get off the horse, my mother is still waiting."
Lie, back to the palace will not take this road at all, unless you wait specially.
Jiao Shihan's eyes flickered a few times, and he said: "Go and report to the Empress, and say that I'm here just for a stroll, and I won't be here for long, so I won't disturb your Majesty's pleasure."
After finishing speaking, he immediately turned his horse's head. Although he finally got the chance today, he would be disappointed if he missed the appointment, but he couldn't avoid the empress being here.
But...Jiao Shihan looked at the way he came, and dozens of people from the palace had already stopped behind, completely blocking the circuit.
Tao Hong withdrew the smile on her face: "Young Master, Your Majesty told you to go there, so you just go there. Although Your Majesty is only a queen, her title is not as high as that of the Empress Dowager, but what she said has some weight, so please don't listen to me. "
What she said was serious, Jiao Shihan was already feeling cold all over his body, he lost face like this, did he want to threaten the Queen Mother with him, or had he dug something deeper.
Jiao Shihan's eyes turned cold, she grabbed the green sleeves who wanted to go forward, turned around and was about to speak when she saw Empress He being carried in a sedan chair from the side, and when the curtain of the sedan chair was lifted, she still had that unsightly look on her face Laugh out of flaws.
"Tao Hong, why is it so useless, you can make me wait so long for anyone." Empress He came out of the sedan chair and said with a smile.
Tao Hong: "Your Majesty, forgive me, but the servants are soft-spoken, and Young Master Jiao won't listen, so the servants have nothing to do."
"I heard from the Queen Mother that Mr. Jiao is the most well-behaved. If he doesn't listen, it must be because you are wrong."
"Young Master Jiao, come here, would you like to accompany me for a walk?" Empress He said, extending her hand to beckon.
Grandmother is not around, he has no position and position, so it is not easy to refute the empress's face, and the way back is blocked, Jiao Shihan dismounted calmly, frowned and said: "Wherever the empress is going, I will accompany her."
If the mountain does not come, she will go to the mountain, and she will go to the mountain. Empress He smiled and asked him to hold her hand and walk in the opposite direction to the loop as she did a few days ago. Xiu and the people from Changxin Palace stood in the back.
"I don't have any place I want to go, I just wander around. This place has been cleaned up by the imperial army long ago, and there is nothing dangerous to scare us, but I didn't expect that the ice and snow in this winter have not melted yet, and the new sprouts will appear. It's pretty fast, and some are even blooming, which is fun."
Jiao Shihan laughed in unison, but there was no smile in his eyes.
Empress He didn't care when she saw it, and continued: "Young Master Jiao, do you have parents and brothers? You have been in the palace for so long, and I haven't seen anyone come to see you."
Jiao Shihan: "No, my parents have already passed away, and I was left alone. It was Duke Ning who saw me as pitiful, so he sent me into the palace to accompany the Queen Mother."
"This... is also a child with a hard life," Empress He patted his hand and sighed, "I have neither parents nor elder brother, so what will happen to your future marriage, why don't I choose one for you?" ?”
Jiao Shihan frowned, and was about to refuse, but Empress He said, "How about Shen Wenxuan, Minister of Rites?"
Jiao Shihan paused, raised her eyes and looked directly into Empress He's eyes. For a moment, her heart trembled, and she noticed the expression in her eyes, always feeling that she seemed to know something.
Empress He's eyes overflowed with a smile, she moved a little closer like a daughter talking about her thoughts, and said in a low voice: "Although this man is a new minister, he doesn't have much influence in the court, and his background is not considered good, but he is different from the common customs. , talented, handsome in appearance, imposing in appearance, and many ladies from official families are interested in him, but do you want me to tell you a thing or two?"
Jiao Shihan lowered her head stiffly, opened her lips a few times before saying: "Don't bother the queen, I just want to serve the queen by her side for a few more years, and I don't want anything else."
"The Queen Mother spoils you so much, how can she be willing to keep you by her side to become an old man. It will be a matter of time to choose a husband and son-in-law for you." Empress He laughed, and pulled him to continue walking.
Jiao Shihan felt the strength of the pulling arm, glanced at the queen and felt confused.
Speaking of patrolling under the pavilion, always pay attention to the movements everywhere, this time he is in charge of the guards of the Yulinchang. In addition to protecting the safety of the emperor, the guards also help the hunting masters to count the prey, back and forth Between the woods and the camp, it was very busy.
He glanced at the emperor who was chatting and drinking in the pavilion, stopped a group of people who were about to change shifts, and said, "You don't need to go, someone has already left for you."
The leader and the people behind looked at each other, took a few steps closer and asked puzzledly: "My lord, what do you mean? Didn't it be agreed that we—"
"I know," Yan Qi interrupted them, squinting his eyes, "The second prince changed his mind temporarily, and he doesn't need you anymore."
The leader hesitated in his heart, and lowered his voice: "But we haven't received any instructions from His Highness the Second Highness."
Yan Qi glared at him dissatisfied: "What? Not satisfied? If you are not satisfied, you can talk to the second prince yourself. I am still dissatisfied. I changed it temporarily. If something goes wrong, the emperor will be the first one to look for me. Who should I go to to reason with? You really think of yourself as a thing, and play wild with me here at will."
"My lord, calm down, my lord, calm down," the leader looked around and laughed hastily, "We follow your lord's arrangement, we all go down, all go down."
While speaking, he led the people behind him to leave obediently, but as soon as he left Yan Qi's sight, he immediately sent someone to notify the prime minister.
After hearing the boy's words, Prime Minister He was stunned, and a feeling of uneasiness suddenly rose in his heart. He had never heard of the empress's words, and his eyes faintly glanced at the words of the audience, and his thoughts turned several times.
Yan Qi wiped the sweat off his neck, patted his chest to cheer himself up, he has seen the world of war, so this is nothing, hold on!
In the depths of the mountain forest, quietly, a gray deer is using its nose to pierce the unmelted snow on the ground, revealing the green grass below. With a movement of its ears, it raises its head vigilantly and looks around. When it finds that there is no threat, it lowers its head and gnaws. Herbivorous tip.
In the bushes a few meters away from it, Ge Wucheng quietly drew his full bow and pointed it straight at it with the help of the branches. Screaming, the subordinate who was hiding behind another tree was hit by an arrow and fell off his horse. He injured his arm. Although it was not a fatal injury, it was enough to surprise Ge Wucheng and his group.
coming!
The deer fled away quickly, Ge Wucheng turned around and looked behind vigilantly, holding the bow tightly in his hand.
The Qiang people came out from the hillside behind, and saw him holding a bow in one hand and an arrow in the other, and he was about to shoot again after putting it on the bow.
Ge Wucheng lowered his body and crawled over, pulled the subordinate who was unfortunately injured just now, mounted his horse while hiding from the arrow, and said loudly: "Back! Go back, hurry up!"
With a strange cry like cheers, the Qiang people drove their horses down from the hillside, shuttled nimbly through the forest, and shot arrows intensively, moving like a fish in water so fast that it makes people dizzy.
Ge Wucheng frowned, and quickly walked deep in the direction.The place where the Qiang people fought was already deep enough. It stands to reason that they should run back as much as possible after being attacked, but Ge Wucheng led the people to do the opposite and continue to go deeper.
It is not certain who is the hunter and who is the prey.
Shen Wenxuan shot a few arrows casually, but he didn't hit the target. He rode his horse restlessly, and Li Zhi was still following him. Shen Wenxuan couldn't go to the forest on the west side at all. Guess, it is impossible for Li Zhi to focus on him today, so why is he staring at him?
Taking a look at the sun, the plan might change if it was later, Shen Wenxuan simply slowed down the speed of the horse, and said with a smirk: "Second Prince, what exactly do you want with Shen?"
"It's nothing, just follow if you want to, Master Shen can't do anything to this hall anyway, can't you?" Li Zhi had a rascal smile on his face, and he was in a good mood, "On the other hand, Master Shen, why is he so angry? Follow, is there any inconvenience, sir?"
"It's convenient, but it's not convenient. The Second Prince's face is too sulky. I haven't caught any prey this way, so I have to stay away from you, Second Prince." Shen Wenxuan said, looking in the right direction. Then he wants to ride a horse with his horse's belly and run fast. If this person doesn't play cards according to common sense, then he will bring him into common sense.
"Stop!" Li Zhi stopped in front of him and shouted, "This hall is following you all the way, now you should go with this hall."
As he raised his eyes, the guards were caught between Shen Wenxuan's left and right sides, which seemed to be holding him hostage.
"This hall will take you to meet someone. If you go late, you probably won't be able to see him." He said, smiling very annoyingly.
He is so confident, Shen Wenxuan can't help wondering if things are going wrong, he can't help rubbing his fingers a few times, and glance at the scratches on one side of the trunk from the corner of his eye, that's a mark, the blood lotus people follow him around, he doesn't worry What would happen to him, when he turned around and was forced to follow the second prince's horse, he pulled out the small knife in his sleeve with one hand and seemed to hold the branch, but it was really another stroke on it.
"Who is the second prince referring to? I am new to the capital, and I don't know many people." Shen Wenxuan asked seemingly unintentionally.
The second prince: "Guess."
Shen Wenxuan glanced at him, and there was a bit of murderous intent faintly in his eyes.
The person from the blood lotus hides in the top of the tree that reaches into the sky, and waits for the person to go far before getting down from the tree. He glanced at the mark made by the young master just now, and ordered a few people to go to the forest on the west side.
The guards leading the way would look at the marks engraved on the bark every time they walked, which were unfamiliar and had the characteristics of a foreign race, but when Shen Wenxuan saw the familiar marks on the bark, he felt a sense of... . Weird sense of balance.
One was left by the Qiang people, and the other was left by Ge Wucheng.
It's like a certain ring in the game has changed strangely, deviated from the established track, but finally returned to its established position.
But at the same time, the sense of dislocation became more serious, and there was always something happening that he ignored.
Jiao Shihan walked a long way with Empress He, and the soles of her feet were worn out. Empress He was in good spirits, and she kept talking along the way, and Jiao Shihan responded without a word, but when she suddenly came out of the woods, When he saw the stone bridge over the river in front of him, he was taken aback.
Suddenly coming from the dense forest with intertwined branches to a wide place, Jiao Shihan squinted her eyes to adjust, she didn't feel the comfort of seeing the sun at all, she just felt cold from head to toe.
How did you get here?If Ah Xuan came suddenly...Jiao Shihan's heart beat extremely fast, and he bowed to the queen with a reluctantly calm face: "Madam, I'm a little tired from walking, I want to go back first."
Empress He: "Tired? Then let's not go, let's go to the bridge to rest for a while—"
"No—" Jiao Shihan interrupted her, "When I came here, the Empress Dowager specifically asked me to go back earlier so that she wouldn't be worried."
This is to use the Queen Mother to suppress her.
Empress He laughed, and stretched out her hand for him to support, just when Jiao Shihan thought she was about to turn around, something suddenly hit her lower back, and she froze.
"Young master, don't move. This servant is holding a golden cicada knife that cuts iron like mud. It can easily pierce through the young master's horse clothes. Please calm down, young master, and listen carefully to what the empress says." Tao Hong whispered, the knife in her hand After stabbing an inch in front, Jiao Shihan could clearly feel that the horse's clothes were torn, and the tip of the knife could touch his flesh.
With a wide cloak blocking Tao Hong's movements, the people behind didn't see anything wrong, not to mention that they were surrounded by servants of Zhongcui Palace, and the green sleeves were crowded around the periphery.
Jiao Shihan's eyes flashed a few times, his body felt numb, and he wanted to turn around, but the next second, the tip of the knife slashed across his waist, and dense pain shot up along the skin.
Tao Hong: "My lord, don't make a sound. When you get to this point, stop holding false thoughts."
What's the use of those slaves in the back, the palace servants they lead are all the elite of the He family army, and none of them will be able to escape later.
Empress He dragged him to the bridge, and stopped when it was in the middle, and glanced at the reflection in the water. The big river doesn't freeze easily, but the water still has a bone-piercing energy.
Jiao Shihan glanced down, inhaled and exhaled slowly, resisting the soreness in his nasal cavity, his expression didn't seem to be afraid, but more like giving it a go after being afraid.
The Queen needed him alive, the face behind his mask.
"I met Jiaqing when I was young. She is a very charming woman. The hundreds of thousands of noble women in Beijing are not as good as her. Do you look like her?" Empress He said playfully. , pulled off the silver silk mask on half of his face, with a "plop", the mask fell off, and disappeared in the water with the waves.
Li Zhi: "It's his loss that Seventh Brother can take people like you out of his camp. If he knows what you really are, he might cry until he can't help himself."
Shen Wenxuan: "The second prince said this to win me over?"
"People like you are not suitable for wooing, and it is easy to overwhelm the master with great achievements."
The subtext is to kill the best, Shen Wenxuan couldn't help laughing: "I'm not only easy to make great achievements, but also easy to hold grudges. Anyone who offends me will suffer from cramp, blazing fire, or sawing a cauldron. Want to try it on him, wouldn't it be happier than letting him die?"
Li Zhi stared at him silently for a few moments, then smiled: "Isn't Lao Qi already on the list that adults want to pull out their bones?"
Shen Wenxuan nodded: "Well, it's up, probably today."
Li Zhi's heart skipped a beat, looking at his expression, he didn't know if he was joking or what.
Suddenly there was the sound of a sword about to strike in front, Shen Wenxuan stopped with a subtle expression.
Li Zhi smiled triumphantly: "It's here, but it may be a bit late, adults can only see—"
"Boom", "Boom", "Boom", the gunshots were deafening in the empty mountain forest, and the echoes rang out, and the horses under him became restless.
Li Zhi was taken aback, no, where did this voice come from?
The branches in front were peeled off, and Ge Wucheng stood there, with several corpses lying beside him, some from the Qiang tribe, some from his subordinates, and some guards, but only him, the lieutenant general, and five guards survived , obviously after a fierce battle.
Shen Wenxuan raised his eyebrows playfully: "It turns out that you colluded with the Qiang people and bought the communication through Ge Zhengzhuo. Not only did you want to get rid of Ge Wucheng, but you also wanted to get rid of me?"
Those guards were not the ones he had arranged, Li Zhi's face was pale and at a loss, and there were strange long objects in the hands of those guards, the noise just now... That night, no——
"How can there be blood lotus people among the imperial guards?" Li Zhi stared at Shen Wenxuan, his eyes tearing apart, "You have only been in the capital for less than half a year, where do you have the energy to put people in the imperial guards?!"
"Wen Liancheng knows a lot of things, but he probably only remembers Ge Wucheng and me?" Shen Wenxuan rode closer to him, "Boy, if you can guess everything about me based on these two points, why am I not in Dali Temple?" Get rid of him outside the prison?"
It is easy to know his relationship with Ge Wucheng through Wen Liancheng, coupled with the affection of Ge Wucheng and Zhang Yujian fighting side by side, the three of them are one in the eyes of the queen's lineage.
"Let Ge Zhengzhuo kill the Seventh Prince after he arrived in the southwest, and then put the blame on Zhang Yujian. I'm afraid the condition of your fornication with the Qiang people here is a traitorous thing. You should cooperate with the guards you have installed long ago to kill Ge Wucheng. Didn’t we have to pretend that Ge Wucheng was the first to protect the Qiang bandits in the end?”
Shen Wenxuan sighed and laughed: "Second prince, don't pretend to be smart, your thoughts are not difficult to guess, isn't this smart and you are mistaken by your cleverness?"
Spring hunting is a very good opportunity, Li Zhi doesn't want to let go of this opportunity, and neither does he.
He has Zhao Er and Yan Qi, so he doesn't need to know too much, like the guards that the second prince has placed long ago can be replaced by Yan Qi, who came here to cooperate with the Qiang people inside and outside are all his people.
As for Ge Zhengzhuo... It can only be said that he has his own thoughts and wants to go back to the Southwest, and use false love points to fool the second prince Bo and lure him into the pit, and then make a deal with him if he has value. The bargaining chip is the family members who are still in his hands. Mr. Ge is quite smart when he is smart.
Li Zhi gritted her teeth and pressed against her trembling hands, glanced at the dead people in the circle from the corner of her eye, and forbid
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When the imperial examination began, Ge Zhengzhuo set off for the southwest with food and other things, and the Seventh Prince went with him. In addition to having enough servants to serve on the road, Emperor Chongxin also sent Zhennan General Zhang Yujian to lead troops south. It is to protect the safety of the Seventh Prince, and the second is to protect the disaster relief items in case bandits are robbed on the road.
The issue of the Qiang Kingdom has not yet been settled, and the embassy has not met the emperor since it entered Beijing.
Emperor Chongxin obviously didn't want to make too much trouble with the Qiang Kingdom, and only one Hun in the north was enough to annoy him. Taking advantage of the fact that officials in the imperial court who had nothing to do in the imperial examination could rest for a few days, Emperor Chongxin took advantage of the opportunity to hold a spring hunt in the imperial forest farm in the suburbs.
According to the etiquette of exchanges between the two countries, one should be held to show the prestige of the great power and kill the vigor of the Qiang mission. You can see real swords and guns.
The spring hunt is scheduled to be on the first day of the imperial examinations. The Ministry of Rites has already set up a viewing stand at the Yulinchang in the outskirts. Next to the forest farm is a palace. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers. It is warm and cold. A spring outing is also fun.
Emperor Chongxin sat on the temporary pavilion, the empress dowager was at the head on the left side, followed by the empress and a group of concubines, and on the right was the leading minister of the Qiang mission, as well as senior officials of the second rank and above. Princes and nobles, the Duke of Ningjiazhen and General Ning also came this time.
The rest of the people sat under the pavilion. Shen Wenxuan straightened his upper body and aimed at the Queen Mother from the corner of his eye. Jiao Shihan was sitting next to her with a smile on his face. Even wearing a half mask could not block the light in his eyes. The toes at the foot of the table stomped on the ground, like a cat poking out and retracting its paws, full of anticipation.
The Empress Dowager looked at him teasingly, and said softly, "What? Can't wait?"
Jiao Shihan nodded helplessly, clasped his fingers together and rubbed them embarrassedly, he was so obedient and sweet, the queen mother couldn't help but pinch one side of his cheek and rubbed it: "Don't worry, this spring hunting will last three months." God, enough for you to play."
Shen Wenxuan caught a glimpse of the Queen Mother pinching someone's hand, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help curling up. He hadn't touched him for a long time, but the Queen Mother was pinching happily.
Tsk, a little sour.
Dozens of people at the front who had changed into horse uniforms were divided into several teams. Civilian and military generals who were good at equestrianism or idlers who just wanted to join in the fun formed teams at will. The more conspicuous one was Ge Wucheng who was riding on a horse with a few subordinates. With the second prince who accompanied and guarded himself, and the Qiang people who were in a group.
Speaking of clearing out the forest farm a few days ago, we drove the wolves, tigers and leopards that could easily hurt people into the deep mountains, and captured the docile deer, rabbits, roe deer, etc., and released them at several points today for food People hunt for fun.
Shen Wenxuan raised his hand to drink a glass of sake, but before he looked away from Ajiao, the little eunuch who was serving beside him poured the wine for him again and slipped a note across the table to him under the cover of the jug, Shen Wenxuan Guang glanced at it, rolled his fingers and put the note into his sleeve calmly, unfolded it and glanced at it while no one was looking.
It can be seen that the handwriting was written by Ajiao, and the single character is "bridge".
There was only one bridge in this forest farm, and it was on the river on the west side. He remembered that the place was not intended to release prey, so when the hunting started later, no one would think of going there.
Shen Wenxuan rolled the note into the palm of his hand, couldn't help smiling, and turned his head to listen to Wang Muze who was behind him.
Wang Muze went down with his body bowed, and by taking advantage of the effort to lead his son's horse from the stable, he turned the news into a gesture and sent it to the lieutenant beside Ge Wucheng.
The lieutenant lowered his eyes, leaning into the general's ear to clarify the meaning of those gestures, Ge Wucheng held the rein in his hand, looked back at Shen Wenxuan, nodded to show that he understood, and controlled the horse under him to move from side to side , pushing away the Qiang people beside him, he caught a glimpse of the second prince standing far away from the corner of his eye, and remembered the meeting a few nights ago.
The two of them had almost no contact with Shen Wenxuan during the past few days. It was one thing to have outsiders around, but it was another thing for Shen Wenxuan to deliberately avoid them.
In a teahouse on Hexi Street, Shen Wenxuan sat cross-legged and woke up a cup of tea for each of the two people with stinky faces opposite him. This teahouse, no, it should be said that this Hexi Street belongs to his Shen family. The servants, stewards, and even ordinary residents in the village all had deep or shallow ties to the Shen family, and most of them were abandoned by the capital, so they would not easily commit betrayal, so it was considered safe to meet here.
Ge Wucheng frowned and sat there with his hands in his hands, with an unhappy expression on his face, he didn't even touch the cup of tea he poured out, and said with disgust: "I thought I had to drink wine no matter what, but I didn't expect it to be a cup of crude tea, it's boring."
Zhang Yujian just picked up the teacup, and after hearing what he said, she glanced at him with a helpless expression, and raised her hand to take a sip.
Shen Wenxuan was not annoyed, and said: "It's a waste of time to drink, but if you really want to drink, I'll ask Xiao Er to bring a pot."
Zhang Yujian: "He didn't want to drink, he was obviously playing with you, and he thought it took you so long to come to see him. He obviously stayed in Beijing for more than ten days, and you either didn't have any news or let him Wait, wait, wait, waiting is getting boring."
"Aren't you the same?" Ge Wucheng glanced at him sideways, then glanced back at Shen Wenxuan, "I've already felt that something is wrong, if you have something to say, just say it, I'm listening."
Shen Wenxuan: "What do you want me to say? Say that the matter in the Southwest has been resolved, and we should all be happy and get together and part ways?"
Ge Wucheng stood up in a huff, shaking the table three times, his face was red, and he said angrily: "What do you mean by that? Solving the Southwest is like cutting out a cancerous tumor, but the patient with the cancerous tumor has not been cured yet. , sooner or later, more tumors will grow, once, twice, three times...you, you—"
Ge Wucheng was so angry that he beat the table and hated iron and steel: "Can't you have some ambition? Aren't you a prince? Come on, it's all... You see, you need soldiers, you need money, you need culture ...We are almost a civil servant, but you have a good literary talent, no matter how bad you are, what is the name of the one you know, Weixiu! He is a great Confucian, and many scholars value this, you just keep doing it, how good it is!"
"Sit down," Shen Wenxuan said, and exchanged a glance with Zhang Yujian, deliberately teasing him, "What if I say that my ambition is not here."
"You—" Ge Wucheng choked, stared at his eyes for a long time, turned his face away and said, "I can't control you, it's useless to say more, if you really have the heart to abandon us brothers and the people who are in dire straits... Wu Gu, you can go if you want, anyway, I want to stay, even if I fight to pieces, I want to protect the peace of the people of Daqing."
Zhang Yujian raised her hand and patted his arm, bowing her head and laughing.
This stupefied--
Shen Wenxuan also laughed, and there was a bit of congenial loyalty in this smile: "Just now I was teasing you, and only you, a wooden head who can't turn, can take it seriously, sit down, look up at you and my neck is tired panic."
Ge Wucheng glanced at Zhang Yujian who was next to him, then at Shen Wenxuan, and sat down forcefully.
"I was wrong before. I replaced the wine with tea, and I will apologize here." Shen Wenxuan said, raising his hand to dry the tea in his hand.
Ge Wucheng's expression softened a little, and he also drank the cup of tea in front of him.
Shen Wenxuan: "I've called you here this time to aim at the throne under the emperor's buttocks. If I want to go up there, there will be a lot of bones. I have to do some dirty things for this. Are you willing?"
"Whether it's pickled or not—" Zhang Yujian tilted his head and looked at Ge Wucheng, "We people who have come out of blood don't care, just one thing, we trust you."
"Okay," Shen Wenxuan's eyes became extremely sharp for a moment, "I want you to do two things. One is that the seventh prince will go to the southwest this time. The second prince will definitely not be safe, but he will definitely not be in the southwest. Do it now, Zhang Yujian, all you have to do is to advance this matter, kill him before the end of the spring hunting, and then pretend to be the second prince to do it, Ge Zhengzhuo will help you quietly."
"The second is Ge Wucheng, I want you to do it during the spring hunting—"
There was movement from the pavilion, Ge Wucheng recovered his senses and looked up. Emperor Chongxin stood on the edge of the pavilion with a slight smile on his mouth, but his eyes were calm and majestic: "Today's spring hunting, all the lovers are showing their skills, so handsome, Immediately until evening, whoever kills the most prey, I will rank him first, second and third, and he will be rewarded heavily!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Everyone got on their horses one after another, neighing, and the fierce horse galloped into the forest. Ge Wucheng grabbed the reins, and before entering the forest, he glanced in the direction of the Qiang people, his eyes were darker than the fog.
Jiao Shihan hugged the Empress Dowager's arm and was about to speak quietly, but saw the Empress stood up, bowed and said: "Your Majesty, this concubine is not feeling well, and I want to go back to the palace to rest for a while."
Emperor Chongxin nodded and agreed, since she happened to be able to bring Concubine Ning over without her, it would be much more free to not be restricted by her.
Empress He knew what he was thinking, but she didn't care about it. When she stepped down from the pavilion, she inadvertently glanced at the Empress Dowager, pursed her lips and smiled, sat in the sedan chair dignifiedly and left.
The queen mother felt strange, and when she was wondering, Jiao Shihan pulled her sleeves and looked at her with bright eyes. The queen mother grabbed his hand and smiled, fearing that he would tie a rabbit fur cloak on him, He instructed: "Be careful when riding the horse, don't make trouble until it's too late, I don't feel at ease here."
"I see, grandma." Jiao Shihan replied in a low voice, and quickly ran down the pavilion, Lu Xiu couldn't help smiling, and led five or six little eunuchs to follow behind him.
The groom in the stable picked out an obedient white horse for him, Jiao Shihan stroked its mane reassuringly, glanced at Shen Wenxuan's back from the corner of his eyes, and immediately retracted it, tense and excited, grabbed the saddle leg Kick off and get on the horse.
After all, he came from the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion, and he still knows how to ride a horse. He turned the horse's head skillfully, Jiao Shihan controlled the horse and trotted towards the forest on the west side, and the green sleeves and the little eunuch behind him also rode .
Shen Wenxuan turned his head and glanced, sat on the spot and tapped his fingers on the table a little anxiously, wishing that the time would speed up eight times at this moment, making Shao Youli look at him frequently, thinking that he was in a bad mood and sat away silently some.
When the time was almost up, Shen Wenxuan immediately got up and bowed to the emperor on the stage, took the bow and arrow from Wang Muze's hand and carried it on his back, and followed his reason without riding a horse and went straight to the west forest. The scenery was fine, but if he went directly there, he would look suspicious, so he had to follow the steps of the previous group of people.
"I am a good man in Daqing, all of whom are tall and straight, brave and good at fighting. If the top three are all from Daqing, King Fan will not feel embarrassed." Emperor Chongxin smiled, looking into the eyes of King Fan There is both arrogance and contempt.
Fan Wang put on a solemn face, not paying attention: "The Qiang people ride horses and hunt for housekeeping skills. They are not as good as the people in the Central Plains who only use them for entertainment. If they lose their housekeeping skills, it is a joke."
"Hahahahahaha," Emperor Chongxin smiled, "The king and I will wait and see."
"Wait and see!"
As soon as he entered the forest, Shen Wenxuan felt that something was wrong. He controlled the horse and continued to walk a few steps. He unexpectedly ran into the second prince. With a smile in his heart, he waved his hands and the guards in front and behind blocked Shen Wenxuan firmly.
Shen Wenxuan glanced back and forth, rubbed the reins loosely, and said with a smile: "What is the meaning of the second prince? There are many people here, the second prince must not make fun of me."
Li Zhi raised her eyebrows indifferently, and said: "This palace just wants to find someone to go with me, so I have chosen Mr. Shen. The forest here is shallow, and there are indeed many people. What is Mr. Shen afraid of?"
Shen Wenxuan glanced at him and turned his mind. Just because of what he said just now, there are already several officials' children passing by not far away. It is completely natural to notice them. As long as the second prince is not stupid, he will not do anything to him. Then what is his purpose in looking for him?Logically, he shouldn't be here.
"Second prince, as for me, I prefer to be alone. If you can't get along with others, you should find someone else." Shen Wenxuan said, riding a horse into the encirclement, he was about to force his way.
Li Zhi didn't stop him with a wave of his hand, turned his horse's head and followed him: "I have my own reasons for looking for your lord, after all, your lord is an interesting person, he hides really deep, even if you know your lord's roots, I can’t see where all the branches of the adults are reaching.”
Shen Wenxuan raised his eyes, pretending to be puzzled: "Forgive Shen for being dull, I don't know what the second prince is talking about."
Li Zhi: "It doesn't matter, I believe in me, Mr. Shen can ignore it."
Shen Wenxuan rolled his eyes, slammed his whip and ran forward, Li Zhi immediately followed, just like a dog skin plaster, but the medicine inside was poisonous.
Before he was determined to frame Lao Qi, Ge Zhengzhuo had come to him, the emperor had put Ge Zhengzhuo under house arrest in Beijing for long enough, at first he could still be served with good food and drink, as uncomfortable as a wealthy idler, But after a long time, when the group of people who are accustomed to worshiping the high and trampling the low discover that the emperor does not intend to reuse him, the benefits of being admired and flattered by others will flow away like water, and life will start to suffer.
Wouldn't it be a pity that a magistrate has no official or position in Beijing, and is forgotten in a corner by everyone, restricted everywhere.
Ge Zhengzhuo fell on the ground and knelt in front of him, begging: "Your Highness, your family members and heirs are all waiting for you to go back in the southwest, looking forward to it every day, looking forward to it every night, and missing you endlessly. I beg Your Highness to help you. To be able to reunite with my family, I am willing to do the work of a dog and a horse."
Li Zhi bent down slightly with interest and asked, "My lord is like an abandoned son, what can I do for this hall?"
Ge Zhengzhuo raised his head and looked earnestly: "The two Feng Lang generals who are beside the emperor today were once subordinates of the minister. It is the minister who reused them and brought them to the capital, so they can have the present style. They owe I have to repay my love, so I use this love to beg His Highness to speak for my minister, begging Your Highness—"
Li Zhi straightened up and sneered: "Love is the most worthless."
"It's worth it!" Ge Zhengzhuo hurriedly took out two letters from his sleeve and held them in front of him, "Your Highness, you will know if it's worth it. The two of them value love and righteousness, and they will definitely not leave me, an old minister, alone." .”
Facts have proved that it is still somewhat useful. One person accepted the two letters and the other did not. Zhao Er was the one who did not answer. He still treated him rigidly. On the day he was anxious to see the emperor, he dared to stop him. I don’t know what to do!However, Yan Qi threw an olive branch at him and promised to do one thing for him, on the condition that he would help him to be promoted to the rank of admiral of the Nine Sects.
One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, and if Zhao Er doesn't think about making progress, don't blame someone who is more ambitious than him.
Li Zhi stared at Shen Wenxuan in front of him, thinking of the things he had arranged, his eyes suddenly burst into poisonous excitement.
Jiao Shihan stroked the mane of his white horse, and rode slowly to wait for Ah Xuan. Ah Xuan would not come over so soon, and he was not in a hurry. He walked leisurely towards the river in the deep forest like a walk in the forest.
Although it was a half day of leisure stolen, but as long as I can see him, it is also good.
When he was not halfway there, a court lady suddenly came out from behind the tree and bowed to stop his horse. Jiao Shihan hurriedly tightened the reins and stopped, and looked carefully that the court lady was wearing the palace uniform of Zhongcui Palace.
People from Zhongcui Palace?Jiao Shihan was puzzled for a moment.
Tao Hong lowered her head and saluted, and said: "Young Master Jiao, my mother is picking incense not far away, she is very happy to see the young master coming, so I invite the young master to go and walk a few steps together."
"Empress...didn't you go back to the palace earlier? How could...?" He asked suspiciously, holding on to the rein in his hand, his doubts became even more serious.
Tao Hong raised her eyes and smiled: "My mother is afraid of going back to the palace alone and getting bored, so she stays here thinking of looking at the scenery and picking flowers. It is also fate to meet Young Master Jiao. Young master, get off the horse, my mother is still waiting."
Lie, back to the palace will not take this road at all, unless you wait specially.
Jiao Shihan's eyes flickered a few times, and he said: "Go and report to the Empress, and say that I'm here just for a stroll, and I won't be here for long, so I won't disturb your Majesty's pleasure."
After finishing speaking, he immediately turned his horse's head. Although he finally got the chance today, he would be disappointed if he missed the appointment, but he couldn't avoid the empress being here.
But...Jiao Shihan looked at the way he came, and dozens of people from the palace had already stopped behind, completely blocking the circuit.
Tao Hong withdrew the smile on her face: "Young Master, Your Majesty told you to go there, so you just go there. Although Your Majesty is only a queen, her title is not as high as that of the Empress Dowager, but what she said has some weight, so please don't listen to me. "
What she said was serious, Jiao Shihan was already feeling cold all over his body, he lost face like this, did he want to threaten the Queen Mother with him, or had he dug something deeper.
Jiao Shihan's eyes turned cold, she grabbed the green sleeves who wanted to go forward, turned around and was about to speak when she saw Empress He being carried in a sedan chair from the side, and when the curtain of the sedan chair was lifted, she still had that unsightly look on her face Laugh out of flaws.
"Tao Hong, why is it so useless, you can make me wait so long for anyone." Empress He came out of the sedan chair and said with a smile.
Tao Hong: "Your Majesty, forgive me, but the servants are soft-spoken, and Young Master Jiao won't listen, so the servants have nothing to do."
"I heard from the Queen Mother that Mr. Jiao is the most well-behaved. If he doesn't listen, it must be because you are wrong."
"Young Master Jiao, come here, would you like to accompany me for a walk?" Empress He said, extending her hand to beckon.
Grandmother is not around, he has no position and position, so it is not easy to refute the empress's face, and the way back is blocked, Jiao Shihan dismounted calmly, frowned and said: "Wherever the empress is going, I will accompany her."
If the mountain does not come, she will go to the mountain, and she will go to the mountain. Empress He smiled and asked him to hold her hand and walk in the opposite direction to the loop as she did a few days ago. Xiu and the people from Changxin Palace stood in the back.
"I don't have any place I want to go, I just wander around. This place has been cleaned up by the imperial army long ago, and there is nothing dangerous to scare us, but I didn't expect that the ice and snow in this winter have not melted yet, and the new sprouts will appear. It's pretty fast, and some are even blooming, which is fun."
Jiao Shihan laughed in unison, but there was no smile in his eyes.
Empress He didn't care when she saw it, and continued: "Young Master Jiao, do you have parents and brothers? You have been in the palace for so long, and I haven't seen anyone come to see you."
Jiao Shihan: "No, my parents have already passed away, and I was left alone. It was Duke Ning who saw me as pitiful, so he sent me into the palace to accompany the Queen Mother."
"This... is also a child with a hard life," Empress He patted his hand and sighed, "I have neither parents nor elder brother, so what will happen to your future marriage, why don't I choose one for you?" ?”
Jiao Shihan frowned, and was about to refuse, but Empress He said, "How about Shen Wenxuan, Minister of Rites?"
Jiao Shihan paused, raised her eyes and looked directly into Empress He's eyes. For a moment, her heart trembled, and she noticed the expression in her eyes, always feeling that she seemed to know something.
Empress He's eyes overflowed with a smile, she moved a little closer like a daughter talking about her thoughts, and said in a low voice: "Although this man is a new minister, he doesn't have much influence in the court, and his background is not considered good, but he is different from the common customs. , talented, handsome in appearance, imposing in appearance, and many ladies from official families are interested in him, but do you want me to tell you a thing or two?"
Jiao Shihan lowered her head stiffly, opened her lips a few times before saying: "Don't bother the queen, I just want to serve the queen by her side for a few more years, and I don't want anything else."
"The Queen Mother spoils you so much, how can she be willing to keep you by her side to become an old man. It will be a matter of time to choose a husband and son-in-law for you." Empress He laughed, and pulled him to continue walking.
Jiao Shihan felt the strength of the pulling arm, glanced at the queen and felt confused.
Speaking of patrolling under the pavilion, always pay attention to the movements everywhere, this time he is in charge of the guards of the Yulinchang. In addition to protecting the safety of the emperor, the guards also help the hunting masters to count the prey, back and forth Between the woods and the camp, it was very busy.
He glanced at the emperor who was chatting and drinking in the pavilion, stopped a group of people who were about to change shifts, and said, "You don't need to go, someone has already left for you."
The leader and the people behind looked at each other, took a few steps closer and asked puzzledly: "My lord, what do you mean? Didn't it be agreed that we—"
"I know," Yan Qi interrupted them, squinting his eyes, "The second prince changed his mind temporarily, and he doesn't need you anymore."
The leader hesitated in his heart, and lowered his voice: "But we haven't received any instructions from His Highness the Second Highness."
Yan Qi glared at him dissatisfied: "What? Not satisfied? If you are not satisfied, you can talk to the second prince yourself. I am still dissatisfied. I changed it temporarily. If something goes wrong, the emperor will be the first one to look for me. Who should I go to to reason with? You really think of yourself as a thing, and play wild with me here at will."
"My lord, calm down, my lord, calm down," the leader looked around and laughed hastily, "We follow your lord's arrangement, we all go down, all go down."
While speaking, he led the people behind him to leave obediently, but as soon as he left Yan Qi's sight, he immediately sent someone to notify the prime minister.
After hearing the boy's words, Prime Minister He was stunned, and a feeling of uneasiness suddenly rose in his heart. He had never heard of the empress's words, and his eyes faintly glanced at the words of the audience, and his thoughts turned several times.
Yan Qi wiped the sweat off his neck, patted his chest to cheer himself up, he has seen the world of war, so this is nothing, hold on!
In the depths of the mountain forest, quietly, a gray deer is using its nose to pierce the unmelted snow on the ground, revealing the green grass below. With a movement of its ears, it raises its head vigilantly and looks around. When it finds that there is no threat, it lowers its head and gnaws. Herbivorous tip.
In the bushes a few meters away from it, Ge Wucheng quietly drew his full bow and pointed it straight at it with the help of the branches. Screaming, the subordinate who was hiding behind another tree was hit by an arrow and fell off his horse. He injured his arm. Although it was not a fatal injury, it was enough to surprise Ge Wucheng and his group.
coming!
The deer fled away quickly, Ge Wucheng turned around and looked behind vigilantly, holding the bow tightly in his hand.
The Qiang people came out from the hillside behind, and saw him holding a bow in one hand and an arrow in the other, and he was about to shoot again after putting it on the bow.
Ge Wucheng lowered his body and crawled over, pulled the subordinate who was unfortunately injured just now, mounted his horse while hiding from the arrow, and said loudly: "Back! Go back, hurry up!"
With a strange cry like cheers, the Qiang people drove their horses down from the hillside, shuttled nimbly through the forest, and shot arrows intensively, moving like a fish in water so fast that it makes people dizzy.
Ge Wucheng frowned, and quickly walked deep in the direction.The place where the Qiang people fought was already deep enough. It stands to reason that they should run back as much as possible after being attacked, but Ge Wucheng led the people to do the opposite and continue to go deeper.
It is not certain who is the hunter and who is the prey.
Shen Wenxuan shot a few arrows casually, but he didn't hit the target. He rode his horse restlessly, and Li Zhi was still following him. Shen Wenxuan couldn't go to the forest on the west side at all. Guess, it is impossible for Li Zhi to focus on him today, so why is he staring at him?
Taking a look at the sun, the plan might change if it was later, Shen Wenxuan simply slowed down the speed of the horse, and said with a smirk: "Second Prince, what exactly do you want with Shen?"
"It's nothing, just follow if you want to, Master Shen can't do anything to this hall anyway, can't you?" Li Zhi had a rascal smile on his face, and he was in a good mood, "On the other hand, Master Shen, why is he so angry? Follow, is there any inconvenience, sir?"
"It's convenient, but it's not convenient. The Second Prince's face is too sulky. I haven't caught any prey this way, so I have to stay away from you, Second Prince." Shen Wenxuan said, looking in the right direction. Then he wants to ride a horse with his horse's belly and run fast. If this person doesn't play cards according to common sense, then he will bring him into common sense.
"Stop!" Li Zhi stopped in front of him and shouted, "This hall is following you all the way, now you should go with this hall."
As he raised his eyes, the guards were caught between Shen Wenxuan's left and right sides, which seemed to be holding him hostage.
"This hall will take you to meet someone. If you go late, you probably won't be able to see him." He said, smiling very annoyingly.
He is so confident, Shen Wenxuan can't help wondering if things are going wrong, he can't help rubbing his fingers a few times, and glance at the scratches on one side of the trunk from the corner of his eye, that's a mark, the blood lotus people follow him around, he doesn't worry What would happen to him, when he turned around and was forced to follow the second prince's horse, he pulled out the small knife in his sleeve with one hand and seemed to hold the branch, but it was really another stroke on it.
"Who is the second prince referring to? I am new to the capital, and I don't know many people." Shen Wenxuan asked seemingly unintentionally.
The second prince: "Guess."
Shen Wenxuan glanced at him, and there was a bit of murderous intent faintly in his eyes.
The person from the blood lotus hides in the top of the tree that reaches into the sky, and waits for the person to go far before getting down from the tree. He glanced at the mark made by the young master just now, and ordered a few people to go to the forest on the west side.
The guards leading the way would look at the marks engraved on the bark every time they walked, which were unfamiliar and had the characteristics of a foreign race, but when Shen Wenxuan saw the familiar marks on the bark, he felt a sense of... . Weird sense of balance.
One was left by the Qiang people, and the other was left by Ge Wucheng.
It's like a certain ring in the game has changed strangely, deviated from the established track, but finally returned to its established position.
But at the same time, the sense of dislocation became more serious, and there was always something happening that he ignored.
Jiao Shihan walked a long way with Empress He, and the soles of her feet were worn out. Empress He was in good spirits, and she kept talking along the way, and Jiao Shihan responded without a word, but when she suddenly came out of the woods, When he saw the stone bridge over the river in front of him, he was taken aback.
Suddenly coming from the dense forest with intertwined branches to a wide place, Jiao Shihan squinted her eyes to adjust, she didn't feel the comfort of seeing the sun at all, she just felt cold from head to toe.
How did you get here?If Ah Xuan came suddenly...Jiao Shihan's heart beat extremely fast, and he bowed to the queen with a reluctantly calm face: "Madam, I'm a little tired from walking, I want to go back first."
Empress He: "Tired? Then let's not go, let's go to the bridge to rest for a while—"
"No—" Jiao Shihan interrupted her, "When I came here, the Empress Dowager specifically asked me to go back earlier so that she wouldn't be worried."
This is to use the Queen Mother to suppress her.
Empress He laughed, and stretched out her hand for him to support, just when Jiao Shihan thought she was about to turn around, something suddenly hit her lower back, and she froze.
"Young master, don't move. This servant is holding a golden cicada knife that cuts iron like mud. It can easily pierce through the young master's horse clothes. Please calm down, young master, and listen carefully to what the empress says." Tao Hong whispered, the knife in her hand After stabbing an inch in front, Jiao Shihan could clearly feel that the horse's clothes were torn, and the tip of the knife could touch his flesh.
With a wide cloak blocking Tao Hong's movements, the people behind didn't see anything wrong, not to mention that they were surrounded by servants of Zhongcui Palace, and the green sleeves were crowded around the periphery.
Jiao Shihan's eyes flashed a few times, his body felt numb, and he wanted to turn around, but the next second, the tip of the knife slashed across his waist, and dense pain shot up along the skin.
Tao Hong: "My lord, don't make a sound. When you get to this point, stop holding false thoughts."
What's the use of those slaves in the back, the palace servants they lead are all the elite of the He family army, and none of them will be able to escape later.
Empress He dragged him to the bridge, and stopped when it was in the middle, and glanced at the reflection in the water. The big river doesn't freeze easily, but the water still has a bone-piercing energy.
Jiao Shihan glanced down, inhaled and exhaled slowly, resisting the soreness in his nasal cavity, his expression didn't seem to be afraid, but more like giving it a go after being afraid.
The Queen needed him alive, the face behind his mask.
"I met Jiaqing when I was young. She is a very charming woman. The hundreds of thousands of noble women in Beijing are not as good as her. Do you look like her?" Empress He said playfully. , pulled off the silver silk mask on half of his face, with a "plop", the mask fell off, and disappeared in the water with the waves.
Li Zhi: "It's his loss that Seventh Brother can take people like you out of his camp. If he knows what you really are, he might cry until he can't help himself."
Shen Wenxuan: "The second prince said this to win me over?"
"People like you are not suitable for wooing, and it is easy to overwhelm the master with great achievements."
The subtext is to kill the best, Shen Wenxuan couldn't help laughing: "I'm not only easy to make great achievements, but also easy to hold grudges. Anyone who offends me will suffer from cramp, blazing fire, or sawing a cauldron. Want to try it on him, wouldn't it be happier than letting him die?"
Li Zhi stared at him silently for a few moments, then smiled: "Isn't Lao Qi already on the list that adults want to pull out their bones?"
Shen Wenxuan nodded: "Well, it's up, probably today."
Li Zhi's heart skipped a beat, looking at his expression, he didn't know if he was joking or what.
Suddenly there was the sound of a sword about to strike in front, Shen Wenxuan stopped with a subtle expression.
Li Zhi smiled triumphantly: "It's here, but it may be a bit late, adults can only see—"
"Boom", "Boom", "Boom", the gunshots were deafening in the empty mountain forest, and the echoes rang out, and the horses under him became restless.
Li Zhi was taken aback, no, where did this voice come from?
The branches in front were peeled off, and Ge Wucheng stood there, with several corpses lying beside him, some from the Qiang tribe, some from his subordinates, and some guards, but only him, the lieutenant general, and five guards survived , obviously after a fierce battle.
Shen Wenxuan raised his eyebrows playfully: "It turns out that you colluded with the Qiang people and bought the communication through Ge Zhengzhuo. Not only did you want to get rid of Ge Wucheng, but you also wanted to get rid of me?"
Those guards were not the ones he had arranged, Li Zhi's face was pale and at a loss, and there were strange long objects in the hands of those guards, the noise just now... That night, no——
"How can there be blood lotus people among the imperial guards?" Li Zhi stared at Shen Wenxuan, his eyes tearing apart, "You have only been in the capital for less than half a year, where do you have the energy to put people in the imperial guards?!"
"Wen Liancheng knows a lot of things, but he probably only remembers Ge Wucheng and me?" Shen Wenxuan rode closer to him, "Boy, if you can guess everything about me based on these two points, why am I not in Dali Temple?" Get rid of him outside the prison?"
It is easy to know his relationship with Ge Wucheng through Wen Liancheng, coupled with the affection of Ge Wucheng and Zhang Yujian fighting side by side, the three of them are one in the eyes of the queen's lineage.
"Let Ge Zhengzhuo kill the Seventh Prince after he arrived in the southwest, and then put the blame on Zhang Yujian. I'm afraid the condition of your fornication with the Qiang people here is a traitorous thing. You should cooperate with the guards you have installed long ago to kill Ge Wucheng. Didn’t we have to pretend that Ge Wucheng was the first to protect the Qiang bandits in the end?”
Shen Wenxuan sighed and laughed: "Second prince, don't pretend to be smart, your thoughts are not difficult to guess, isn't this smart and you are mistaken by your cleverness?"
Spring hunting is a very good opportunity, Li Zhi doesn't want to let go of this opportunity, and neither does he.
He has Zhao Er and Yan Qi, so he doesn't need to know too much, like the guards that the second prince has placed long ago can be replaced by Yan Qi, who came here to cooperate with the Qiang people inside and outside are all his people.
As for Ge Zhengzhuo... It can only be said that he has his own thoughts and wants to go back to the Southwest, and use false love points to fool the second prince Bo and lure him into the pit, and then make a deal with him if he has value. The bargaining chip is the family members who are still in his hands. Mr. Ge is quite smart when he is smart.
Li Zhi gritted her teeth and pressed against her trembling hands, glanced at the dead people in the circle from the corner of her eye, and forbid
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